Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Lincoln
Online Counselling and Therapy in Lincoln
Online counselling and therapy for Lincoln, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Lincoln, from the historic Bailgate and the cathedral to the streets around the castle, with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.
BACP registered member25+ years of experienceLived experience
ConfidentialA safe, private space
Person-centredThe therapy fits you
In and around Lincoln
Counselling and Therapy for Lincoln, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Lincoln: from the historic Bailgate and the cathedral to Ermine, St Giles and the city centre below the hill
- Known for
- The cathedral, the castle and Steep Hill
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- Lincolnshire Talking Therapies (steps2change)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Lincoln
What is going on for people in Lincoln?
Something is wrong and you cannot say what. The sleep went first, then the interest in things, and there is no event to point at that would make any of it sound reasonable. Lincoln makes that easier to ignore than most places. It is a striking city in a large rural county, help of any specialist kind tends to be somewhere else, and the habit of managing on your own sets in early. You might be a student who has not settled, or working long hours in the gas turbine and engineering trade, or driving into the city from a village where nobody discusses this sort of thing. None of that has to be explained before you begin.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Lincoln
BailgateErmineSt GilesUphillBracebridgeBoulthamBirchwoodHartsholmeMonks RoadCarholme
Wherever you are in Lincoln, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Lincoln
Official figures for Lincoln, for context rather than as a description of you.
20.5% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, below the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (2022/23).
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 15.8% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 101.7 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
Reviewed June 2026.
What would we do together in counselling and therapy?
Counselling and therapy here is one steady starting point for whatever you are carrying, anxiety, low mood, addiction, relationships or the past, integrative and led by you, so we begin with what matters most and shape the work around you.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see everything on counselling and therapy for the methods, the practical side for fees and session lengths, and qualifications, registration and ethics if you want to check who you would be working with.
How does meeting by video work in practice?
Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link, held to the same BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call, you join from any private space on a phone, tablet or laptop.
Sessions run online from Hove, which for this county is the practical difference between getting help and not. There is no forty-minute drive at the end of a working day and no car park to find below the hill. The free 15-minute call needs a quiet half hour. After that, weekly hours can be arranged round shifts, term dates or farm work, and moved when the week collapses rather than cancelled outright.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Which difficulties does counselling and therapy address?
Low mood and depression
For the flatness, exhaustion and loss of interest that drain the colour from things.
Addiction and habits
Alcohol, drugs, gambling or behaviours that have stopped feeling like a choice.
Relationships
Conflict, distance and trust, as a couple or on your own.
Trauma and the past
When something you have been through still shapes your present.
Life feeling stuck
For the big transitions, losses and crossroads that leave you unsure which way to turn.
Counselling and Therapy in Lincoln
Why people in Lincoln come for counselling and therapy
You are not required to know what this is. That is the point of starting here rather than somewhere that expects a referral and a label. The early sessions are concrete: what your last week held, which bits you dreaded, what you have stopped bothering with. The name for it usually comes out of that conversation instead of preceding it. Locally, recorded depression on GP registers reached 15.8% of patients aged 18 and over in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%, and in a county where distance keeps people away from services, that recorded figure is likely to be a floor rather than a ceiling. This work is present-focused and often short. Eight to twelve sessions is enough for a great many people, and if something older turns up beneath it we will say so. Lincolnshire Talking Therapies is the NHS self-referral route.
A free, unhurried first step
Not sure if it is right for you? A free fifteen-minute call is a no-obligation way to talk it through.
Book a free 15-minute callFinding support in Lincoln
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Lincoln, you can refer yourself directly to Lincolnshire Talking Therapies (steps2change) for free NHS talking therapy, with no GP referral needed.
Private sessions with me usually mean you can start sooner and stay with the same counsellor throughout; I am glad to work alongside any NHS or GP support you already have.
Other local and national support verified for this area includes:
If you need urgent help now
This is not a crisis service. If anyone is in immediate danger call 999. For urgent mental health support, call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option. The Samaritans are free, day or night, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.
Lincoln questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Lincoln: common questions
Can I start without knowing what is wrong with me?
Yes, and nothing about that is unusual. Working out what this is forms part of the therapy rather than a condition for entering it. Come with what you have noticed: the early waking, the irritability, the flatness that will not lift. That is entirely enough to build a first session on.
What will I pay, and is there a minimum commitment?
An hour costs £80, ninety minutes £100 and two hours £120, booked one session at a time with no minimum. Most people at this stage take the hour and stop when they have what they came for. The 15-minute consultation beforehand costs nothing and puts you under no obligation.
What is the NHS route in Lincoln?
Lincolnshire Talking Therapies is the NHS Talking Therapies service across the county, and in England you can refer yourself directly rather than waiting for a GP appointment. Waiting times differ by area. Some people start privately and keep the NHS referral moving so they are not left waiting empty-handed.
Everything specialist seems to be an hour away. Is that true of this?
No, and that is the main advantage of working this way. The distance from Lincoln to anywhere is irrelevant when the session comes to you, so rural isolation stops being a reason to go without. What you need is privacy for the hour and a connection that holds.
I am a student at the University of Lincoln. Does this stop in the holidays?
It carries on. Because it is all by video, where you log in from makes no difference, so the work continues when you go home for Christmas or the summer and picks up in term without a restart. That continuity is often what makes the difference in a single year.
I live out in the county, well away from Lincoln, can you still help?
Yes. One of the advantages of online counselling is that distance stops mattering. Whether you are in the city or out in a village across Lincolnshire, you can meet by video from home, with no long drive in, just a private space and a connection.
Is there a waiting list to start online counselling in Lincoln?
Counselling and therapy is open to anyone in Lincoln online, with no waiting list. It begins with a free 15-minute consultation to check the fit, and weekly sessions usually follow shortly, whether you live in St Giles, Boultham or out towards Hartsholme.
How much is private counselling in Lincoln compared with NHS talking therapies?
Lincoln's NHS Talking Therapies are free but often oversubscribed, so a wait is likely. Private sessions cost £80 an hour, 100 for 90 minutes and 120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute consultation. Students at the University of Lincoln sometimes use both routes.
How does online counselling work for people in Lincoln, and can sessions be in the evening?
Sessions are held by video, which removes the long rural drives Lincolnshire so often demands. A private space and a reliable connection are all you need, from Bracebridge to Monks Road, and evening appointments are often possible.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Lincoln, whenever you are ready
A free fifteen-minute call is the simplest place to start, no obligation, just a chance to see if we are the right fit.
Also available online across Midlands: Nottingham, Peterborough. See all of Midlands.
People who come for counselling and therapy in Lincoln often also look at anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
Some further reading, if that helps before getting in touch: where to start when you cannot name it and how change actually sticks.
For anyone near the coast, the same counselling and therapy runs in person in Brighton. Every area covered is listed separately.